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November 17, 2010, Wednesday

In ''A Day in the Death of Joe Egg'' by Peter Nichols, the couple at the heart of the play, Bri and Sheila, address the audience, even confide in it. In this scene they talk of Josephine, their severely disabled child, whom they call Joe Egg. The...

April 20, 2003, Sunday

To the Editor: I must take issue with Benedict Nightingale when he writes that Peter Nichols's musical ''Poppy'' ''failed when the Royal Shakespeare Company produced it in 1982'' [''A Day in the Death of a Once Glorious Career,'' March 23]. That...

April 6, 2003, Sunday

As partners in the vaudeville act known as marriage, Bri and Sheila have performed this routine dozens, maybe hundreds of times before -- the one where she pretends she's the switchboard operator and he's the Viennese doctor. Yet as portrayed by...

PETER NICHOLS is a genial man and a genuinely funny playwright, but he is about as optimistic as the Ancient Mariner or the sort of Beckett character who lives in a trash can. He has described his famously cynical friend Stephen Sondheim as ''a ray...

March 23, 2003, Sunday

You have been asked, for the moment, to see the man on the stage in London through the eyes of an itchy, sullen schoolboy. He is your teacher, and he seems like a major jerk. He is hostile, impatient, unfair and uncomfortable. Not so different, come...

June 3, 2001, Sunday

If every event in life were set to a soundtrack, what sort of music would you pick for an extramarital fling? A country ballad twanging with heartbreak? A slithery and smoky jazz number, heavy on the saxophone? The British playwright Peter Nichols...